{"id":1335,"date":"2017-03-08T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2017-03-08T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:24:01","slug":"smart-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbielaczyc.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/smart-school\/","title":{"rendered":"SmArt School"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I signed up for SmArt School with Todd Lockwood. We have only had two sessions and I have already learned a lot. It seems that my 2D design and composition class I took 15 years ago didn’t really stick with me. Some very basic principles were either forgotten, or missed. <\/p>\n

As I prep for the DragonCon jury, I was looking at my older images and decided to do some small updates to help make them stronger. The most noticeable change was for the Sirin painting. When I had the drawing printed to the panel, it cut off a little too much of my bleed space, so her toes were always too close to the bottom of the canvas. Due to time restraints I didn’t have time to reprint it. But thanks to the digital age, I got to do some nice edits yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Left 2016 version, Right 2017 version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I first opened up the image by an inch all the way around and repainted the atmosphere. I did some touch ups on her, fixing some proportion problems with her arms, added some highlights, and fixed some issues with her head. The main thing, is I heard Todd’s voice “Who is your star?” and I added some light behind her head to give contrast to her dark hair\/fair skin combo. I am pretty happy with the outcome.<\/p>\n

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The Sirin, 16×20 oil and digital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am working on a cool new piece in the class as well, exploring my difficult relationship with composition and values in depth \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year I signed up for SmArt School with Todd Lockwood. We have only had two sessions and I have already learned a lot. It seems that my 2D design and composition class I took 15 years ago didn’t really stick with me. Some very basic principles were either forgotten, or missed.  As I prep … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t